Bass of the Week: Roks Instruments Futura

This week we’re taking a look at the Futura from Roks Instruments out of The Netherlands. Luthier Axel Roks, who created the bass as part of Dutch Design Week, uses the human body as a large influence on his creations.

“This design originated out of the idea that a bass guitar could be an object in itself,” he writes on his website. “Strong influences of the female body combined with hand shaped aluminum create contrast. Besides the intriguing design every Futura is equipped with a custom made TripleBucker and semi parametric equalizer.”

The Tripplebucker has separate on/off switches for each of the three coils, allowing for some serious tonal diversity. While the bass can be made with a variety of woods, this particular Futura is built with a two-piece ash body, a book-matched birdseye maple top, a quartersawn hard maple neck, an aluminum support and a pau ferro fretboard.